Show HAWKS SAVE ALFALFA CROP colorado birds pass up chickens for grasshoppers and are protected by farmers loveland colo chicken hawks once the bane of tho the farmers life are now the best protected birds in this part of colorado the he ranchmen ranchman ranch men of this district guarding them against slaughter with a vigilance that has put state game wardens to td shame the unusual alliance la iff due to a pest of grasshoppers which has threatened the alfalfa crops with ruin the hawks nearly a thousand of which have collected in this neighborhood have proved to be the most successful means of destroying the grasshoppers which they evidently regard as a delicacies in the matter of food leaving chickens unmolested |